<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Javascript cookies</title>
</head>

<body onload="checkCookie()">

</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getCookie(c_name)
{
if (document.cookie.length>0)
  {
  c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
  if (c_start!=-1)
    {
    c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
    c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
    if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
    return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
    }
  }
return "";
}

function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
{
var exdate=new Date();
exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays);
document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString());
}

function checkCookie()
{ alert('checking cookie');
username=getCookie('username');
if (username!=null && username!="")
  {
  alert('Welcome again '+username+'!');
  }
else
  {
  username=prompt('Please enter your name:',"");
  if (username!=null && username!="")
    {
    setCookie('username',username,365);
    }
  }
  else {
    document.write(username + ' has just visited here!');
  }
}
</script>
</html>